Must See Halloween Movies for All Ages!

Halloween is my favorite time of year. The leaves are changing color, the air is crisp and the wind makes eerie noises as it blows over the land. It is the perfect time for a Halloween movie that is family-friendly or a dark Halloween horror if you can get a babysitter. Family friendly horror movies are great because the whole family can watch or you can put them on during a Halloween party since it they are appropriate for all ages.

Here is my list of the top family friendly Halloween movies that you can buy, rent or download.

  • Corpse Bride (PG)- Tim Burton is the master of storytelling via the movie world. Corpse Bride is a love story based in the underworld. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman you really can't go wrong with this family-friendly Halloween movie.

  • Casper (PG)- Father and daughter happen to sleep in an abandoned house only to find out it is not abandoned but has four ghosts. Three of the ghosts happen to be mischievous and one happens to be Casper the Friendly Ghost. This is a classic family friendly Halloween movie.

  • The Nightmare before Christmas (PG)- Another Tim Burton film which has become a cult classic for Halloween. Jack Skellington, King of Halloweentown, finds himself in Christmastown after deciding he is bored with Halloween all the time. He gets everyone in Halloweentown to help him put on Christmas but things aren't quite right. A must see on Halloween.

  • Ghost Busters!- Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray star in this classic movie that is very suitable and family-friendly for Halloween.

  • Addams Family Values (PG-13)- Among the ultimate Halloween families is none other than the Addams Family. Addams Family Values is a comedic horror movie where the family must rescue Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) from the grasps of a gold-digger.

  • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (G)- This should be a classic family-friendly Halloween movie if you have children or are an adult with the love of everything Pooh. Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie is meant for all ages. Pooh's friend Lumpy the Heffalump is celebrating his first Halloween and scared witless. Pooh and his friends decide to catch an imaginary monster they call the Gobloon but scare themselves silly in the process.

  • Garfield's Halloween Adventure (G)- Garfield's Halloween Adventure comes in two parts and is or should be a family friendly classic shown on Halloween. Garfield and Otis find themselves dressed as pirates and confronting ghostly pirates after hearing a scary tale.

  • The Witches (PG)- Angelica Huston as the Grand High Witch is bent on transforming all the world's children into mice in this Jim Henson produced movie. In fact, it was the last movie Jim Henson produced and happens to be a great family- friendly Halloween movie.

  • "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" (G)- If you have never seen this movie then you may not be human. This Charlie Brown special is the ultimate family-friendly Halloween movie in existence and thus ranks number one on my list. Adopted from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/…

Stop Junk E-Mail

The man that sent this information is a computer tech. He spends a lot of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints about speed. All forwards are not bad, just some.

He wrote: By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.comand/ or truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites. Advice from snopes.com:

1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience. These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your child" --- email tracking. Ignore them and don't participate!

2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them. You will be providing a service to your friends. And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more. You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT!
Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it easy for them! ALSO: Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress of any other organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a "signed signature" and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.